Badge of Evil
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Badge of Evil is a 1956 crime novel by Whit Masterson that served as the basis for Orson Welles’s classic film noir "Touch of Evil."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Badge of Evil canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8742096 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Badge of Evil Context triple: [Touch of Evil, basedOn, Badge of Evil]
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A.
Career of Evil
Career of Evil is a crime novel in the Cormoran Strike detective series, published under J. K. Rowling’s pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
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B.
The Mask of Evil
The Mask of Evil is a poem by Bertolt Brecht that reflects his politically charged, anti-fascist themes and appears as part of his Svendborg Poems collection.
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C.
The Mind of Evil
The Mind of Evil is a 1971 Doctor Who serial featuring the Third Doctor confronting a sinister mind-altering machine inside a high-security prison amid a plot involving the Master.
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D.
Touch the Devil
Touch the Devil is a Cold War-era thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring espionage, terrorism, and high-stakes covert operations.
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E.
The Black Devil
The Black Devil was the fearsome nickname of Erich Hartmann, the German World War II fighter ace who remains the highest-scoring fighter pilot in history.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Badge of Evil Target entity description: Badge of Evil is a 1956 crime novel by Whit Masterson that served as the basis for Orson Welles’s classic film noir "Touch of Evil."
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A.
Career of Evil
Career of Evil is a crime novel in the Cormoran Strike detective series, published under J. K. Rowling’s pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
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B.
The Mask of Evil
The Mask of Evil is a poem by Bertolt Brecht that reflects his politically charged, anti-fascist themes and appears as part of his Svendborg Poems collection.
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C.
The Mind of Evil
The Mind of Evil is a 1971 Doctor Who serial featuring the Third Doctor confronting a sinister mind-altering machine inside a high-security prison amid a plot involving the Master.
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D.
Touch the Devil
Touch the Devil is a Cold War-era thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring espionage, terrorism, and high-stakes covert operations.
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E.
The Black Devil
The Black Devil was the fearsome nickname of Erich Hartmann, the German World War II fighter ace who remains the highest-scoring fighter pilot in history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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crime novel ⓘ film ⓘ novel ⓘ pseudonym ⓘ |
| author | Whit Masterson ⓘ |
| basedOn | Badge of Evil ⓘ |
| basisFor | Touch of Evil ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| director | Orson Welles ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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police procedural ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFormat | fiction ⓘ |
| originalLanguage |
English
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English ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1956 ⓘ |
| usedBy |
H. Bill Miller
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Robert Allison Wade ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Badge of Evil Description of subject: Badge of Evil is a 1956 crime novel by Whit Masterson that served as the basis for Orson Welles’s classic film noir "Touch of Evil."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Badge of Evil